SCIENCE: If a scientific heresy is ignored or denounced by the general public, there is a chance it may be right. If a scientific heresy is emotionally supported by the general public, it is almost certainly wrong. ... It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. ... It is those who support ideas for emotional reasons only who can't change. -- Isaac Asimov, "Asimov's Corollary," 1977

MORALITY: The Gay Cult minority in this country has manipulated our society into believing that homosexual practices in any form are moral and right---otherwise we are "Intolerant." They justify their behaviors by claims of "we were born this way," that what they do is a "civil right." Yes, they have a right to pursue their own happiness, but not at the expense of strangling the moral, objective truths of civilization itself. -- Bonnie Alba, opinioneditorials.com, 6/30/06

MORALITY: The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

TREASON: Before the Vietnam War, this country took treason seriously. But now we're told newspapers have a right to commit treason because of "freedom of the press." Liberals invoke "freedom of the press" like some talismanic formulation that requires us all to fall prostrate in religious ecstasy. ... But freedom of the press does not mean the government cannot prosecute reporters and editors for treason -- or for any other crime. ...

The federal statute on treason, 18 USC 2381, provides in relevant part: "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States ... adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000." ...

The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency -- our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home. And the greatest threat at home isn't traitorous liberals -- it's patriotic Americans, also known as "Republicans," tut-tutting the quaint idea that we should take treason seriously. -- Ann Coulter, townhall.com, 6/29/06

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: It is not bigotry to insist that there is a good reason why marriage has existed in every known human society, and why it has always involved the uniting of men and women. It is not bigotry to acknowledge what reams of scholarship confirm: Family structure matters, and children are more likely to suffer problems when they are not raised by their married mothers and fathers. It is not bigotry to resist the dishonest comparison of same-sex marriage to interracial marriage -- skin color has nothing to do with wedlock, while sex is fundamental to it. And it is not bigotry to fear that a social change as radical as same-sex marriage could lead to grave and unintended consequences, from the persecution of religious institutions to a growing clamor for legalizing polygamy. -- Jeff Jacoby

LEGACY: One day, our grandchildren may ask us what we did when Islamic fascism threatened the free world. Some of us will say we were preoccupied with fighting that threat wherever possible; others will be able to say they fought carbon dioxide emissions. One of us will look bad. -- Dennis Prager

IRAQ WAR: [D]uring World War II, the Japanese...gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster 'Tokyo Rose' and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale. What was that demoralizing message? It had three main points: 1. Your President is lying to you. 2. This war is illegal. 3. You cannot win the war. -- David Horowitz

GOVERNMENT: The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. -- Milton Friedman

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Political correctness is really a subjective list put together by the few to rule the many -- a list of things one must think, say, or do. It affronts the right of the individual to establish his or her own beliefs. -- Mark Berley

CHARITY: Repairing the breach [Isaiah 58:12] -- or closing the rapidly widening gap between rich and poor -- and Turning the hearts [Malachi 4:6] and our priorities from the world to our families are the two greatest causes and challenges of our time, and the two tasks most relevant (and most prerequisite) to the Lord's second coming. ... One powerful way of working at both scriptural admonitions at the same time is to bring the very rich together with the very poor. Doing so solves the problems of both. The rich overcome self-centeredness and hedonism by helping, thus turning their children from spoiled brats to serving and world-aware stewards. And the poor begin to receive the help they need on a personal level. Each time it happens, the breach is repaired (even if just a little) and the hearts are turned. -- Richard Eyre, meridianmagazine.com, 6/23/06

POVERTY: Sometimes the easiest way to understand the macro is to reduce it to the micro. Say the whole world were a single family (it really is, by the way). What parent could tolerate a situation where one of his six children is hundreds of times poorer than another one -- where one has wealth and food and education and opportunity while another one has none of the above? How does God tolerate it in his family? How long and how patiently will He wait for the one son to help the other (first to notice and then to act)? -- Barbara Kingsolver

GOVERNMENT: What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? -- James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 8 February 1788

UNITED NATIONS:
When a liberal is defending the UN, the arguments are generally based on some perceived notion that just because the majority of petty juntas, Communist dictatorships, and radical theocracies of the world have an opinion about something, then that opinion is, by default, granted the coveted Liberal mantle of "international moral authority." ... There is ... a pathological obsession to force the United States to conform to the bidding of the absolute worst of the member states. ... American sovereignty is the only thing that keeps Americans free and preserves our way of life. -- Justin Darr, opinioneditorials.com, 6/20/06

GLOBAL WARMING:
Global warming hysteria is merely anti-Western, anti-capitalist political activism masquerading as science. The aim of its proponents, aside from the gullible college crowd that might actually swallow such unproven conclusions uncritically, is to use fear to take power. Let's not be foolish enough to destroy ourselves without a thorough examination of their claims. -- Joe Mariani, opinioneditorials.com, 6/20/06

Happy Fathers Day!

FATHERS: According to the CDC, DoJ, DHHS and the Bureau of the Census, the 30 percent of children who live apart from their fathers will account for 63 percent of teen suicides, 70 percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions, 71 percent of high-school dropouts, 75 percent of children in chemical-abuse centers, 80 percent of rapists, 85 percent of youths in prison, and 85 percent of children who exhibit behavioral disorders. In addition, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. In fact, children born to unwed mothers are 10 times more likely to live in poverty as children with fathers in the home.

"[The causal link between fatherless children and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime," notes social researcher Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, adds, "[The absence of fathers] from family life is surely the most socially consequential family trend of our era."
-- Mark M. Alexander, townhall.com, 6/16/06

IRAQ: Every Iraqi who went to the polls was risking his or her life. Yet in the elections on Dec. 15, voter turnout was higher than in any American presidential election in 130 years. It is hard to imagine a more dramatic example of national courage. -- L. Paul Bremer, "Seize the Day,", opinionjournal.com, 6/15/06

IRAQ WAR: Some in America ... speak of setting timetables for the withdrawal of our forces. This would be an historic mistake. Withdrawing our troops before Iraqis can defend themselves would endanger American security by encouraging more terrorism. It would betray the democratic government of Iraq and dishonor the sacrifices of American service men and women. -- L. Paul Bremer, "Seize the Day,", opinionjournal.com, 6/15/06

ISLAM: When we consider the fact that approximately two-thirds of the world's Muslim population is illiterate, this means the majority of Muslims cannot read their religion's most important book. Further, it means that Islam can be interpreted and taught any way its leaders desire. -- Herman Cain, "Know Your Enemy," townhall.com, 6/14/06

EUROPE: Europe is committing demographic suicide, and has been doing so for some time.... Demography is destiny, and Europe's demographics of decline -- which are unparalleled in human history absent wars, plagues, and natural catastrophes -- are creating enormous and unavoidable problems. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

EUROPE: Out-of-control political correctness in Europe is rooted in a deeper malady: a rejection of the belief that human beings, however inadequately or incompletely, can grasp the truth of things -- a belief that has, for almost two millennia, underwritten the European civilization that grew out of the interaction of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

RELATIVISM: In the relativist mindset, it ... turns out, not all religious and moral conviction is bigotry that must be suppressed; only the Judeo-Christian variety is. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

EUROPE: Nihilism rooted in skepticism, issuing in the bad faith of moral relativism andWestern self-loathing, comforting itself with a vacuous humanitarianism ... has contributed to killing Europe demographically, and to paralyzing Europe in the face of an aggressive ideology [i.e. Islam] aimed at the eradication of Western humanism in the name of a lethally distorted understanding of God's will. -- George Weigel, "Europe's Two Culture Wars," commentarymagazine.com, 5/10/2006

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: The power of the law to communicate society's endorsement tells us that our system does not and should not protect everything it tolerates. -- Bruce C. Hafen, "How Same-sex Marriage Weakens What Marriage Means", meridianmagazine.com, 6/5/06

EDUCATION: Public schools are what columnist Joe Sobran calls "liberalism's reproductive system." In lieu of teaching Biblical truth, which -- are you sitting down? -- used to be the purpose of education, the government schools teach an "amalgam of liberalism, feminism, Darwinism, and the Playboy philosophy." No longer content to ruin their own children, liberals insist on being subsidized by the taxpayer to ruin everyone else's children, too. -- Ann Coulter, "On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberals Schemed," townhall.com, 6/6/06

DEMOCRATS: Politically, any good news from Iraq is bad news for Democrats. In fact, any good news about anything is bad news for the Demos; they are, after all, the party of disenfranchised victim constituencies. -- patriotpost.us, 6/9/06

DEFENSE OF FAMILY: It has become obvious that the actions of private individuals ["consenting adults"] in the aggregate exert a profound influence on other individuals and on society as a whole. In fact, when enough individuals behave primarily with regard to their own self-fulfillment, the entire culture is transformed. -- Mary Ann Glendon, "Principled Immigration," opinionjournal.com, 5/31/06

ARMS: An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. -- Robert Heinlein

WELFARE: Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. -- Lawrence Auster

LIBERALS: Liberalism IS a religion. -- Ann Coulter

IRAQ WAR: Solid signs that conditions in Iraq are improving: (1) Refugees -- there are none; Iraqis are returning home. (2) Pilgrimages to Shiite shrines -- almost none in 2003; now, 12 million annually make them the most visited spots inthe Muslim world. (3) Value of the Iraqi currency -- increased 18 percent against US dollar last year. (4) Small/Medium business activity -- booming! (5) Iraqi willingness to express opinions -- silent under Hussein, now the most vocal in the Arab world. -- Amir Taheri, "The Real Iraq", commentarymagazine.com, June2006

IRAQ WAR: Is Iraq a quagmire, a disaster, a failure? Certainly not; none of the above. Of all the adjectives used by skeptics and critics to describe today'sIraq, the only one that has a ring of truth is "messy." ... Births always are. -- Amir Taheri, "The Real Iraq", commentarymagazine.com, June 2006

LIBERALS: Liberals can believe what they want to believe, but let us not flinchfrom identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God. -- Ann Coulter, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism"

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: Same sex marriage is a massive social experiment, completely unprecedented in human history. American society has not recovered from the last round of social experimentation. -- Jennifer Roback Morse, townhall.com, 6/12/06

POLITICS: America may be ready for a new political party. ... The problem is not that the two parties are polarized. In many ways they're closer than ever. The problem is that the parties in Washington, and the people on the ground in America, are polarized. There is an increasing and profound distance between the rulers of both parties and the people--between the elites and the grunts, between those in power and those who put them there. ... Right now the Republicans and Democrats in Washington seem, from the outside, to be an elite colluding against the voter. They're in agreement: immigration should not be controlled but increased, spending will increase, etc. Are there some dramatic differences? Yes. But both parties act as if they see them not as important questions (gay marriage, for instance) but as wedge issues. Which is, actually, abusive of people on both sides of the question. If it's a serious issue, face it. Don't play with it. -- Peggy Noonan, "Third Time," opinionjournal.com, 6/1/06

HOMOSEXUALITY: If someone with homosexual urges must be defined as a homosexual, then I must be defined as a murderer, a thief, and all the other nasty impulses present in my being. The whole point of morality is the suppressing of wrong or inappropriate urges, and the encouragement of good ones. -- Nathanael Blake, "Identity v. Action," townhall.com, 6/2/06

REPUBLICANS: Who's really the Republican base? The corporations that funnel all that money to the politicians and the party, or the American citizens who vote?... The direction we are headed, it's easy to see whom the Republicans view as their base. It ain't Joe Voter. -- Jeff Adams, "Republicans are Ditching Their Base", libertypost.org, 8/13/05

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: [The liberal redefinition of marriage] will not produce a tremendous number of gay unions in this nation, in fact the overall effect will likely be quite low according to the numbers. But what we have learned in the ten years we have observed this effect in other nations is that it will de-emphasize the need for marriage all together, and that will leave children vulnerable.And it is overwhelmingly clear, and the data does not leave us in the dark on this, children do best when parented by a mother and a father. Marriage is not aprivate act. It is an institution which bears direct accountability to building our society. -- Maggie Gallagher, quoted by Kevin McCullough, townhall.com, 6/5/06

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: We can not trust the likes of Kennedy, Clinton, and Leahy when they tell us that states are capable of protecting marriage for themselves. The will of the people is being ignored - just ask the voters of Massachusetts. That state does not have redefined marriage because of what voters wanted. More than seventy percent of the voters, oppose the state's redefining of marriage.It was four judges, who were not elected who decided such redefinition should occur. -- Kevin McCullough, townhall.com, 6/5/06

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: So, essentially, the argument in opposition to a federal marriage amendment comes down to this: Sex trumps God. Sex trumps religious liberty. Sex trumps the well-being of children. Sex trumps personal conscience. Sex trumps the Constitution. -- Alan Sears, townhall.com, 6/6/06

LIBERALS: We must be wary of those who insist they support the troops yet are eager to believe the worst about them before we have even heard their side of the story. -- David Limbaugh, townhall.com, 6/6/06

VALUES: The falling birth rates that are fueling the welfare crisis, ... are symptomatic of a deeper crisis in beliefs and attitudes -- a crisis involving changes in the meanings and values that people attribute to aging and mortality, sex and procreation, marriage, gender, parenthood, relations among the generations,and life itself. -- Mary Ann Glendon, "Principled Immigration," opinionjournal.com, 5/31/06

FREEDOM: Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good. -- Oliver Ellsworth (A Landholder, No. III, 19 November 1787)